> Michael Kerrisk wrote:> > How about a link in /pub/linux/docs/manpages/ of the form > > "LATEST-IS-m.xy"? Rob Landley was wanting something like this,> > and I guess it would be easy for LFS to build a simple> > script that looks for that link and deduces "man-pages-m.xy" > > from it. (I've just now created such a link in the directory,> > as an example.)> > We don't care about the latest version, so the link neither helps nor> hurts us. What's needed is that the URL and the MD5 sum for a > version in the book > don't change, and that LFS developers have a reasonable time (say, two > weeks) to react to version updates.

Don't change for how long? As I said, old versions never wereavailable "forever" on kernel.org -- usually they only stayed a few months, though lately the lifetime stretched out a little.

I don't really want to, for example, copy the tarball to two places each time. That takes me extra time, and is proneto errors (e.g., I might forget).